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Lion

April 13, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

A Long Way Home is Saroo Brierley’s 2013 memoir that was the basis for the 2016 film, Lion. Out of last year’s Oscar contenders, of which I saw all but Manchester by the Sea and Fences, Lion was by far my favorite. It has a lot of heart, it’s well acted and it’s a pretty unbelievable story. There were half a dozen women fixing their mascara in the bathroom after the credits rolled. Saroo’s memoir is a more fleshed out and in depth telling of his journey. Saroo was born in […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: A Long Way Home, Lion, Saroo Brierley

A heart-breaking story

March 16, 2017 by badkittyuno 2 Comments

Oh, this book was so hard to read — both the specific tragedy of Saroo’s story, as well as the horror of what millions of other kids like him continue to experience. It’s an excellent book, and definitely worth reading, but I will not be seeing the movie version. “My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was “surprised with thunder” that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was “as deep as the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Saroo Brierley

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